Author: Meagan Falcon

There are more than 220 million French speakers worldwide and the select few at Del Mar College honored the gastronomy of the French-speaking countries by celebrating Fête de la francophonie on March 23 in the Foreign Languages Lab inside the Coles Building on East Campus. Fête de la francophonie, also known as the International Francophonie Day, is the holiday of the French Speaking World. International Francophonie Day is celebrated on March 20 every year throughout the world to commemorate the signing on March 20, 1970, of the Niamey Convention, which resulted in the grouping together of French-speaking states. The day…

Del Mar College’s West Campus celebrated the unveiling of the new DMC Process Technology and Instrumentation Pilot Plant on March 10 for the official opening of the new training facility. The college’s Process Technology Program and new Instrumentation Program are addressing the region’s growing need for skilled technicians in process, instrumentation, industrial automation, process control, safety and related fields by upgrading and adding state-of-the art instruction equipment such as the pilot plant. The pilot plant includes a large-scale industrial process system that facilitates training in operations in field activities regularly undertaken by process operators/technicians within the refining, petrochemical and oil…

A town located so far north that it is almost not in the United States but almost in Canada is known as Almost, Maine. It is not on any map because its residents never got around to being organized. In a sense, one can say Almost is just that, “almost?” “Almost, Maine” is one of the most widely produced plays over the past two years and now the Del Mar College Drama Department will present its performance of the play from March 8-12. “We have been working on this production since the beginning of the semester,” said Carl Yowell, DMC…

The Del Mar College physical therapy class is hosting a Zumbathon fundraiser at 6 p.m. March 9 in the Retama Room inside the Harvin Center to raise money to attend a state conference in October. Monica Kingsbury, a physical therapy assistant in the two-year program at Del Mar College, stressed the importance of the Zumbathon for the class. “The money raised from the Zumbathon will provide us the means to attend the Texas Physical Therapy Association Conference in Fort Worth.” The statewide conference draws 500-1,000 students. Physical therapists and physical therapy assistants will be present at the event and will…